Is this the work of the ghost of Joe Carollo? What was supposed to be a sleepy, bureaucratic conversation about succession planning at City of Miami on Thursday detonated faster than a cafetera left unattended. Commissioner Miguel Angel Gabela thought he was teeing up a routine discussion about the process for replacing retiring Police Chief […]
Mercy Hospital could have also been on the table Miami Commissioner Ralph Rosado walked into last week’s Miami City Commission meeting with a bold solution to the city’s crushing housing crisis: Unlock hundreds of acres of underused land owned by churches, schools, nonprofits, and government institutions — and allow affordable housing to be built by […]
Residents want out of agency’s ‘hostage tax’ The Downtown Neighbors Alliance — which represents about 40,000 people living in Downtown and Brickell — is done playing nice with the Miami Downtown Development Authority and city officials that have mostly ignored them. Earlier this month, DNA fired off a formal request to Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia […]
Newly elected Miami Commissioner Ralph Rosado has a whole new staff at his District 4 office that are not new to politics. Heck, some of them are not new to Miami. Rosado’s director of constituent services is Lazaro Quintero, the former director of constituent affairs for Mayor Francis Suarez and the guy who was the […]
While there is a new chairman at the Miami Downtown Development Authority in freshly minted City Commissioner Ralph Rosado, it looks like the 58-year-old agency, which is tasked with assisting and incentivizing business in the urban core — hasn’t exactly shaken off the stink of recent scrutiny, with legit questions still swirling around its bloated […]
Well, that didn’t take long. It took Joe Carollo less than a month to go from proud political padrino to spiteful ex in the case of newly-elected Commissioner Ralph Rosado, who Carollo helped usher into office with more than half a million from his political action committee and hours upon hours of his unique political […]
Questions raised about intimidating senior voters Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Ralph “Pinky” Rosado was elected with a lot of help from his friends, mostly two veteran politicians who poured around $1.6 million into his campaign for a special election last month that drew 5,346 people — or 11% of the District 4 registered voters. According to […]
After what turned out to be yet another City Hall cage match between Miami commissioners Joe Carollo and Miguel Gabela, the commission voted to abolish the Bayfront Park Management Trust. Not right now. But by January of next year. This was Commissioner Damian Pardo‘s brilliant idea. Both he and Gabela folded fast like a pair […]
Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Ralph Rosado has been in office for less than a month. But, already, he somehow knows that the Bayfront Park Management Trust is superfluous and needs to be abolished. Sound familiar? That’s because Commissioner Joe Carollo, who poured perhaps up to $1 million into Rosado’s campaign through his political action committee — […]
Lifetime term limits moved forward to November ballot There will still be an election in the city of Miami this year — but it might be for a charter amendment, not for candidates. Miami commissioners on Tuesday took the first step toward moving city elections from odd to even years, which extends everybody’s terms by […]